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[h=2]BURNING poppies or abusing soldiers may no longer be illegal under plans unveiled yesterday.[/h] Ministers are considering making it legal to use insulting words or actions to avoid "criminalising free speech".
Yobs can currently be nicked for being "threatening, abusive or insulting".
Tougher rules ... Theresa May
Emdadur Choudhury, 26, was charged last year after burning poppies and five Muslims were convicted for shouting insults at a homecoming parade.
Ministers have also unveiled plans to let cops make thugs remove "face coverings" or masks.
But minister James Brokenshire said: "We must make sure any powers do not trample upon traditional British freedoms."
Meanwhile, tighter laws brought in by Theresa May saw the number of anti-terror stop and searches fall from 102,504 to 9,652 last year.
No arrest for poppy attacks in shake-up | The Sun |News|Politics
Yobs can currently be nicked for being "threatening, abusive or insulting".
Emdadur Choudhury, 26, was charged last year after burning poppies and five Muslims were convicted for shouting insults at a homecoming parade.
Ministers have also unveiled plans to let cops make thugs remove "face coverings" or masks.
But minister James Brokenshire said: "We must make sure any powers do not trample upon traditional British freedoms."
Meanwhile, tighter laws brought in by Theresa May saw the number of anti-terror stop and searches fall from 102,504 to 9,652 last year.
No arrest for poppy attacks in shake-up | The Sun |News|Politics